The Changing Nature of Teachers’ Work: An Australian Perspective

Naidu, Shamalin

Abstract:The genesis of the changes in teachers’ work lie within the identifiable socio-cultural and geopolitical paradoxes that are restructuring societies and economies to conform to particular global view of the way some interests want the world to be . . . Teachers are increasingly expected to follow directives and become compliant operatives in the headlong rush to encase schools within the ideology, practices and values of the business sector – never mind that they have histories, aspirations and professional cultures that make them decidedly different to car plants, breweries or fast-food outlets (Smyth, Dow, Hattam, Reid & Shacklock, 2000, p. 1)